Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, possibly from Rhodes
DateLate sixth through fifth centuries BCE
DimensionsH: 3 1/16 in. (7.8 cm); Diam: 1 1/8 in. (2.8 cm); Max Diam of Body: 1 7/8 in. (4.7 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.146
Not on View
DescriptionAmphoriskos. Cobalt-blue ground with opaque yellow and opaque turquoise-blue decoration. Broad, inward-sloping rim-disk; cylindrical neck; obtuse-angled shoulder; top-shaped body; circular cobalt-blue base-knob with a rounded edge, almost entirely covered by a marvered opaque yellow thread. Two largely restored, cobalt-blue vertical strap handles extend from the shoulder to the upper part of the neck. An unmarvered opaque yellow thread attached at the edge of the rim-disk; a second opaque yellow thread and an opaque turquoise-blue thread, both marvered, begun on the shoulder and tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern to the middle of the body; below, an opaque turquoise-blue thread and a thin opaque yellow thread, both marvered, are wound horizontally around the lower part of the body.
Short vertical indentations on the body caused by the tooling of the zigzags. Core-formed; applied rim-disk, handles, and base-knob; applied marvered and unmarvered threads.
Published ReferencesGrose, David F., Early Ancient Glass: Core-Formed, Rod-Formed, and Cast Vessels and Objects from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Roman Empire, 1600 B.C. to A.D. 50, New York, Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, Cat. No. 100, p. 145.
4th-3rd century BCE
late 6th-5th centuries BCE
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
Probably first half of fifth century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late sixth to fifth centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
6th-5th century BCE
5th century BCE
5th century BCE
3rd century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
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